Troy Baker sounds amazing and deep as Zeta Prime, he can play him as both a pompous arrogant ruler who drove his people to war or a tired, sympathetic leader who relinquishes leadership to a young Optimus Prime.

Either way this is a fantastic example of Troy Baker's voice work and the range he's capable of.

Phillip Lewis Clarke sounds pretty good too, having a real cool voice and sounds greatly aged but Troy leaves more of an impact on me.

BONUS: I could see Gerard Plunkett making for a fantastic Zeta Prime, something like a mix of his Turaga Dume and Pontius Pilate. For a bigger budget someone like Patrick Stewart would be phenomenal as Zeta Prime.

@Polyester Funk That's exactly what I meant. It is possible to deeper things without exaggerating size, but you lose variance. This is more than a normal volume for Troy.

That being said, certain people, namely JAT & DBB, have been able to deep without overdoing "gruff", & Welker does Dr. Claw by using a lot of air. So it's possible. Who knows, someone should ask Troy at a con at some point.

Yeah. Currently, the Prime franchise is pretty muddled. WFC is advertised as being in-continuity with the G1 cartoon (which it can't be), Exodus and WFC contradict each other, and there's Sentinel Prime and Zeta Prime both existing and having the same role. As the TFwiki noted, "This continuity was off to a great start!"

Yeah, but to be fair NCZ the whole 'new' continuity in says basically that the game, the new cartoon, and the book 'Exodus' are all supposed to be 'cannon'. If that is the case there is no mention of Zeta in the book, only Sentinel which would seem to validate some of hikuro's comments. Just throwing that out there